Occupy Wall St. tent a safe haven for women. Marcus Santos for New York Daily News Protesters erect new “safe” tent for women only in Zuccotti Park Friday after recent groping incidents were reported.
Spurred by a spate of sex attacks in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protesters built a “safe house” for women on Friday. The 16-square-foot military frame tent is designed to shelter up to 30 women from the predators lurking around the lower Manhattan encampment. “It will be used to protect ourselves from people out there,” said Nan Terrie, 17, a protester from East Oakland Park, Fla. “I’m sick and tired of women getting taken advantage of, raped and murdered.
“We need to take charge. Terrie said the tent, erected along the southern edge of the park near Cedar St., will be outfitted with bunk beds, drawers and a welcome table. “I think it’s a great idea, especially for a movement like ours, to show we’re supporting each other,” said Bieje Chapman, 37, of Park Slope. rschapiro@nydailynews.com. Class Divisions at Occupy Wall Street? 'Occupy' Protesters March On New York Stock Exchange. Demonstrations in New York City continued with nightfall, as thousands of "Occupy" protesters massed at a downtown plaza and then peacefully marched across the Brooklyn Bridge -- aiming for a grand finale to a long day of activism that led to more than a hundred arrests and injuries to at least two police officers.
With some 11 hours of marching already in the books and under a darkening, cloud-covered sky, the indefatigable horde caught its breath at Foley Square, a short distance from the bridge. They buoyantly chanted and pumped signs like delegates at a political convention, and some danced boisterously. Mayor Bloomberg Confronts Occupy Wall Street. In Zuccotti Park, Posted Rules, but Many Questions. Christopher Robbins/GothamistNot lying down in the park.
Not using a sleeping bag. But is this person breaking the rules? The rules posted — and now enforced — at Zuccotti Park seem straightforward enough. No camping. No sleeping bags. Pepper Spray and Ayn Rand Deployed Against Occupy Seattle Protesters. Occupy Wall Street Organizers Consider Value of Camps. In New York, where the police temporarily evicted Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park early Tuesday, and in other cities, dozens of organizers maintained that the movement had already reshaped the public debate.
They said it no longer needed to rely solely on seizing parks, demonstrating in front of the homes of billionaires or performing other acts of street theater. They said they were already trying to broaden their influence, for instance by deepening their involvement in community groups and spearheading more of what they described as direct actions, like withdrawing money from banks, and were considering supporting like-minded political candidates.
Angry 'Occupy' Protesters Plan To Take It To The Streets, As Some Threaten Violence. NEW YORK – Two days after the encampment that sparked the global Occupy movement was cleared by authorities, demonstrators in New York City and around the country were promising mass gatherings Thursday in support of the cause.
The day of action had been planned before the city and park owners cracked down on the encampment in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, but took on added importance to the protesters after tents, tarps and sleeping bags were cleared out early Tuesday and the granite plaza was cleaned for the first time since the group arrived more than two months ago. "We will get boots on the ground again," said Rory Simpson, 29, who described himself as an itinerant activist as he made signs Wednesday evening. "This is not over yet. " Occupy Oakland Disperses, For Now - By Patrick Brennan. The Occupy Oakland encampment in Frank Ogawa Plaza was raided overnight, again, but this time the crowd dispersed peacefully.
The camp’s organizational structure knew that the eviction was coming but did little about it beforehand: Last night’s General Assembly began with an “indigenous prayer ceremony honoring the Ohlone people of the East Bay,” and soon moved on to a declaration that their camp would be a safe haven for “all immigrants with or without papers.” They also decided to officially embrace a “diversity of tactics,” refusing to condemn violence or vandalism, on the grounds that doing so would allow the “media” to sow seeds of division within the movement. They filled time between the 11 p.m. meeting and their decampment with a “dance party” called Occupacolypse — the Oakland version of Nero playing the lyre as Rome burned.
The mayor’s legal adviser, Dan Siegel, resigned today because he believes a “violent takeover is not acceptable.” The OWS Legal Team - Patrick Brennan. Yesterday, lawyers for the Occupy Wall Street movement successfully filed for a temporary restraining order with a New York court.
On paper, at least — the Bloomberg administration did not comply — Justice Lucy Billings’s ruling allowed the protesters to return to Zuccotti Park between yesterday morning’s eviction and yesterday afternoon’s full hearing. She temporarily barred the city and the private owners of the park from preventing the occupation or keeping the occupiers from setting up tents.
Justice Billings is perhaps the ideal enabler for the occupiers. Speaking of the protest’s lawyers, most of them are affiliated with the National Lawyers Guild, a group of explicitly progressive lawyers whose mission calls for the “reconstruction of legal values to emphasize human rights over property rights.” That philosophy runs throughout much of their work, which has consistently championed the preferences of “marginalized” groups over the rule of law. Another OWS lawyer, Michael J. Is OWS in danger of losing Middle America? - War Room. Let’s try to make sense of this.
A new national survey from Quinnipiac University suggests that popularity for the Occupy Wall Street movement is plummeting, with 39 percent of voters now saying they have an unfavorable view of the movement, compared to just 30 percent who have a favorable one. At the same time, a new CNN poll finds that voters agree with OWS by a 2-to-1 margin, 36 to 19 percent. Which one is right? The Root of All Oakland.
The morning after Occupy Oakland's midweek violent protests, the take in the Bay Area was that it was a dirty, rotten shame that a few bad-egg anarchists hijacked a mostly peaceful protest and made an otherwise good cause look bad.
That is so delusional. Is the Tide Turning for OWS? - Charles C. W. Cooke. With a little help from the residents of Lower Manhattan and a little more from the denizens of Occupy Wall Street’s tent city, significant parts of Community Board 1 (CB1) and the New York State legislature seem finally to have realized that they have been had.
“We have had twelve meetings,” one member said last night during a CB1 session in City Hall, “and now we’ve given up.” It is about time. To most clear-thinking people, it has been painfully obvious for some time that the powers that be have credulously indulged a group that is simply playing games with the democratic process. Now those powers may have caught on, too. One resident summed it up perfectly: “This is about the law. Next, the protesters’ trump card was reexamined. Behind the Lines With Krugman's Army. ‘OCCUPY WALL STREET’ & ELSEWHERE: The 9.9 Most Eye-Catching ‘Occupy’ Cartoons [updated] - Comic Riffs. Posted at 01:44 PM ET, 10/16/2011 Oct 16, 2011 05:44 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost You could just feel it weeks ago, couldn’t you? ‘Follow the Red Flag!’ - By Kevin D. Williamson. I’ve been spending as much time as I can down at Occupy Wall Street, listening to the speeches, reading the literature, talking to the organizers.
Here’s something to keep in mind: You’ll hear in a lot of the conservative media that this is some kind of socialist/communist enterprise piggybacking on a populist protest. In reality, it is much worse than even most of the conservative media is reporting. Almost every organization present at OWS is explicitly communist or socialist. Almost every piece of literature being handed out is explicitly communist or socialist. I don’t mean half, and I don’t mean the overwhelming majority — I mean almost all of it. 'Occupiers' killing stimulus-funded sod in D.C. Neo-Cannibals, Deadbeats, Dopers and Democrats Occupy Denver « Looking at the Left.
Back with a Vengeance, Evicted Protesters Take the Streets Denver, October 16, 2011 - by El Marco “Occupy Denver” returned to the streets with a vengeance Saturday after being expelled, having their camp forcibly removed from Veterans’ Park by police at 4 a.m. Friday morning. October 15 was declared International Day of Action, which saw radical socialist/anarchist Occupy protests and violence in European and American cities. The Occupy Denver crowd reached approximately 2000 – 3,000. Times Square among 900 sites “occupied” I was in Times Square Saturday as thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters brought their anti-greed, pro-economic justice message to Manhattan’s brightly lit temple of consumerism and corporate culture.
The protest in New York occurred along with hundreds of other coordinated actions around the country and the world. Large affiliated crowds marched in London, Frankfurt, and Rome, where rioters hijacked a peaceful anti-austerity protest. There was a reported total of 900 protests in cities around the world, ranging in size. The day capped a month of exponential growth for a movement that started in New York on Sept. 17, and has since spread to nearly 2,000 towns and cities. Here is a panoramic photo I took in Times Square Saturday. Will a new Dylan emerge from Occupy Wall Street? Cornel West meets the Man. Occupy Wall Street's struggle for nonviolence - Occupy Wall Street. On Saturday, the Washington Post splashed a photo on its front page of an Occupy Wall Street protester apparently tackling a police officer during a march Friday morning in lower Manhattan. Occupy Wall Street. Occupy Wall Street’s Marxists. The standard portrayal of the Wall Street protesters goes something like this: Ragtag group of unemployed young adults, venting often incoherent but overall legitimate populist outrage about economic inequality.
But go down to the movement’s headquarters, as I did this past weekend, and you see something far different.